1/ Clearing up some confusion re: the letter we sent to NYU. Collecting personal data via scraping tools is an industry-wide problem that’s bad for people’s privacy & unsafe regardless of who is doing it. https://twitter.com/jeffhorwitz/status/1319756528962785280

2/ We protect people's privacy by not only prohibiting unauthorized scraping in our terms, we have teams dedicated to finding and preventing it. And under our agreement with the FTC, we report violations like these as privacy incidents.

3/ Our Ad Library API provides industry-leading transparency and is used extensively by researchers to bring insights into political advertising. Today we offer more transparency to people & researchers than anyone else in advertising.

4/ We'll keep adding to the Ad Library but we want to make sure that providing more transparency doesn't come at the cost of privacy.

5/ Lastly, we gave NYU 45 days to comply with our request, which is the end of November and long after Election Day. This is in line with our normal enforcement protocol.